Monthly Archives: June 2012

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As we expect the BHS community will be taking a much deserved respite from our hectic year, our updates on this page will be on a semi-hiatus until we get close to the next school year. We do, however, wish to relay some of the exciting new developments in the English Department for the upcoming year:

A New Online Vocabulary Text for Freshmen
Starting next year, we will begin to phase out our older vocabulary textbooks in favor of an in-house, custom-made online textbook for our freshmen (available next year) and our sophomores (available the following year).

New Titles in the Classroom
The following books will be new, or renewed next year at BHS; some have never been taught at the school before, some have not been taught recently, and some have never offered as extensively as they have in the past.

An Updated BHS Literary Map [UPDATE]
Our Literary Map (in the menu bar above) will be broadened to include some of our new texts, and to provide more points from the texts we have already covered. We explored other sites to completely restart this project, but they proved to either be too limiting or too expensive.

On Thursday, June 21st at 1:00 PM, the BHS Varsity softball team will take on the BHS Faculty Assembled Players in a showdown for the ages. The Varsity team has only lost twelve games total over the past three seasons, including 3 tournament berths and an Eastern MA championship … but they haven’t beaten the faculty since 2003. Come see the game!

City of Bones; City of Ash; City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

by Cassandra Clare (Other books by Clare, Clockwork Angel, Bk.1&2)

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Enter the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare creates a ferociously entertaining fantasy, adventure and takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end

Science Fiction, adventure, thriller, Todd lives in a world that is infected by a mysterious chemical that caused all the men who came in contact with it to broadcast all of their thoughts.

The Uglies; The Pretties; The Specials; The Extras

Series by Scott Westerfeld ( other books Peeps, a novel ; Leviathan)

Science Fiction, adventure

Shaman’s Crossing; Forest Mage; Renegade”s Magic

Soldier son trilogy by Robin Hobb ( this author has many fantasy adventures series)

Fantasy, adventure Nevare Burvelle follows his father into the cavalry, training at the elite King’s Cavella Academy in Old Thares, where he begins to realize his life path is not as solid as he was led to believe.

Incarceron; Sapphique

Trilogy by Catherine Fisher

Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Finn is determined to escape the prison, but there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye and escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know. Because Incarceron is alive.

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a core text in our sophomore curriculum, just won the 2012 Tony for “Best Revival of a Play”. This production features Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, and Andrew Garfield as his son Biff, and has been hailed as the consummate production of this play, bettering even the stellar 1985 production starring Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich.

Click HERE for a few publicity photos from the upcoming film adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law. The movie will be released in the States in November of this year.